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New dataset added from the Gothenburg Botanical Garden

The Gothenburg Botanical Garden has published their living collection in BioAtlas and GBIF. The collection consists of 26 980 vascular plants collected from all over the world.

The collection is publicly displayed in the botanical garden. The garden proper is about 40 hectares and here grow some 16,000 different species and cultivars. There are many different parts of the garden such as the Rhododendron Valley, the Japanese Glade and the Rock garden. In the Greenhouses you will find about 4,000 various species and cultivars, including some 1,500 orchids, a remarkable travertine department and the rare Eastern Island Tree. The garden is involved in several conservation projects of threatened species in western Sweden.

Read more about the Gothenburg Botanical Garden and explore their records at BioAtlas Collectory.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners and Country

The Biodiversity Atlas Sweden acknowledges Sweden's Traditional Owners and pays respect to the past and present Elders of the nation’s Sami communities. We honour and celebrate the spiritual, cultural and customary connections of Traditional Owners to country and the biodiversity that forms part of that country.

The BioAtlas is made possible by contributions from its partners, and is based on work financed by the Swedish Research Council through Grant No 2017-00688.